After drooling over all 180 men (hi, boys!) we were inspired to predict which country would win the 2014 World Cup… based on hotness. Before we picked the winning countries, we had to select a final round of the hottest soccer players. (Disclaimer: By the time the official games kick off, some of these guys may be cut. *tear*)

Here’s our pick of the top 40 hottest men in the 2014 World Cup, organized by country:

Argentina

1. Lionel Messi

Australia

2. Joshua Brilliante

Belgium

3. Dries Mertens

Bosnia-Herzegovina

4. Ermin Bicakcic

Brazil

5. Neymar Junior

Cameroon

6. Aurelien Chedjou

Chile

7. Rodrigo Millar

Croatia

8. Vedran Corluka

England

9. Adam Lallana

10. Ben Foster

11. Gary Cahill

12. Luke Shaw

France

13. Olivier Giroud

Germany

14. Philipp Lahm

Greece

15. Georgios Tzavellas

16. Orestis Karnezis

Iran

17. Daniel Davari

Italy

18. Andrea Barzagli

19. Christian Maggio

20. Daniele De Rossi

21. Ignazio Abate

22. Leandro Bonucci

23. Manuel Pasqual

Mexico

24. Miguel Layun

Portugal

25. Cristiano Ronaldo

26. Rui Patricio

Spain

27. Koke Resurreccion

28. Alvaro Negredo

29. Fernando Llorente

30. Juan Mata

31. Sergio Ramos

32. Thiago Alcantara

Switzerland

33. Fabian Schar

34. Pajtim Kasami

35. Tranquillo Barnetta

Uruguay

36. Sebastian Eguren

USA

37. Kyle Beckerman

38. Geoff Cameron

39. Omar Gonzalez

40. Mix Diskerud

Final Tally:

As you can see, it was neck and neck for a few of these countries! In the end, England, Portugal, USA and Switzerland all tied for 2nd place. However, only two countries edged out ahead of the pack. At six hot soccer players each, Spain and Italy tied at 1st place.

Unfortunately, there can only be one winning team in the 2014 World Cup: Hotness Awards.

After tough deliberation and several minutes spent looking at the pictures, we’re pleased to announce that the winning team in the 2014 World Cup: Hotness Awards is:

Spain!

Congratulations to Spain for recruiting the hottest soccer players in the world to play on your team. Also, congratulations to your players – specifically Fernando Llorente (and his dimples) and Juan Mata (and his suit) who helped break the tie against Italy and lead you to victory.

UPDATE: After receiving dozens of drool-worthy suggestions from our readers, we decided the least we could do is give you more hot men. Are you ready for it?! Click below to check out our NEW post:

oscar from brazil,erik durm and andre schurrle from germany, jack wilshere and alex oxlade chamberlain, and belgium has got A LOT hot football players, eden hazard, jan vertonghen,thomas vermaelen, nicolas lombaerts, axel witsel and maybe adnan januzaj. oh and based on the abs, i would put david luiz from brazil on the list 😀

Okay, I have some that I think are missing.
Claudio Marchisio is #1, and he should mean +10 for Italy, haha.
Altso, there is Erik Durm, Marco Reus, Olivier Giroud (don’t remember if you mentioned him?) and… Cristian Bolaños. Thomas Vermaelen, Eden Hazard, Adnan Januzaj.
I can’t think of any others right now.

Simona

Oh and Alexis Sanchez, Cristian Tello and Jesus Navas!

Derek Yu

Almost 60% of world population is Asian but… Of course they must all be ugly… Who made this list?!

beedubs

you pick spain as the hottest team (which i 1,000% agree with) but you omit their hottest player, iker casillas?

wrong, wrong, wrong.

My Truth

I think Alireza Haghighi and Maoud Shojaei from Iran are also good looking ! (Yeah I’m Iranian )

Gina

Agree with you on Alireza Haghighi. Meow.

eunice

Kouassi Gervais Yao (Gervinhoooo) of As Roma!!!!!!

HGC

What! Not one black player! Many of the hottest players in this world cup (in my opinion) are from African teams. Expand your “hot” horizons, please.

Thanks to everyone for suggesting their favorite players – we tried to incorporate as many of your suggestions as possible!

Enjoy 🙂

Christine

Geoff Cameron and Portugal. ♥♡♥

lola

Seriously some of those are not hot at all. They left off Torres from Spain, Messi from Argentina, and no one from netherlands come on. They got some hotties.And Brazil has more hotties then just Neymar who reminds me of chicken wings. lol. Too bad they not going for those not playing in world cup. Cause Imbroemivic has one of the hottest bodies ever! But obviously these people need glasses. Cause Fernando Torres is muy caliente!